1. Workplace health and safety data

Goal: Improved data management and analysis

Data is essential for highlighting the major sources of workplace injury and disease and targeting prevention efforts. Comprehensive data also assists in identifying benchmarks for assessing workplace health and safety performance.

Key actions	Proposed completion date
1.1 Use existing data sources (qualitative and quantitative) to develop a workplace health and safety data warehouse for strategic information on workplace health and safety outcomes and effective prevention strategies.	June 2004
1.2 Introduce an objective methodology based on the analysis of warehouse data to identify priority areas for policy development, legislative review, compliance auditing and program evaluation.	June 2004
1.3 Review and evaluate outcomes of data warehousing and targeting.	Ongoing